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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorGBRUnited KingdomEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.84rank #44
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile78.4rank #20
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.67rank #27
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.61rank #35
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #45
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile74.4rank #30
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.84rank #44
Military spending% GDP2.3%rank #42
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.53rank #27
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile70.3rank #89
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile78.7rank #14
Rule of Law0-100 percentile78.8rank #24
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #18
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.77rank #28
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.69rank #28
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile79.6rank #19
Women in parliament% seats40.5%rank #27
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.84rank #42
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment0.85%rank #176
Agriculture value added% GDP0.64%rank #151
Annual working hours per workerhours1,522.8rank #116
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker428,912.2rank #32
Current account balance% GDP-2.4%rank #57
Employment-to-population ratio%57.9%rank #88
FDI net inflows% GDP1.9%rank #49
GDPcurrent US$4Trank #5
GDP growth%1.4%rank #148
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$57,602rank #18
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $53,993.1rank #29
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $54,371.6rank #26
Government expenditure% GDP41.2%rank #10
Gross capital formation% GDP19.7%rank #95
Gross savings% GDP17.2%rank #55
High-technology exports% manuf. exports29.2%rank #15
Human capital indexindex3.8rank #4
Industry value added% GDP16.5%rank #133
Inflation%3.9%rank #111
Labour force participation rate%60.9%rank #94
Personal remittances received% GDP0.13%rank #84
R&D expenditure% GDP2.7%rank #13
Researchers in R&Dper million4,472.7rank #19
Tax revenue% GDP26.9%rank #9
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.79rank #38
Trade openness% GDP62.5%rank #89
Unemployment% labor force4.7%rank #79
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%4.9%rank #84
Vulnerable employment% employment11.5%rank #45
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2414.6%rank #106
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2414.3%rank #103
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #5
Basic sanitation access% pop99.1%rank #34
Child mortalityper 1000.47rank #20
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,434.6rank #29
DTP3 immunization coverage%92%rank #8
Health spending% GDP11.1%rank #6
Infant mortalityper 1k births4.1rank #22
Life expectancyyears81.4rank #42
Maternal mortalityper 100k8rank #8
Measles immunization% children89%rank #11
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%89%rank #11
Physiciansper 1k3.3rank #17
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m39.5rank #43
Road traffic deathsper 100k3.2rank #9
Smoking prevalence% adults12.8%rank #39
Suicide mortality rateper 100k9.6rank #121
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k9.7rank #43
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births4.7rank #37
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.9%rank #25
Expected years of schoolingyears17.8rank #18
Mean years of schoolingyears13.5rank #9
Primary completion rate% relevant age101.1%rank #26
Primary enrollment% gross102.2%rank #60
Secondary enrollment% gross112.1%rank #18
Tertiary enrollment% gross80.4%rank #24
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0009.9rank #154
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.6rank #140
Median age of populationyears39.8rank #47
Net migration rateper 1,0006.5rank #30
Populationpeople69.49Mrank #22
Population growth%0.3%rank #154
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years85.1rank #44
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands75,504.7rank #26
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age57.8rank #85
Urban population%83.3%rank #39
Climate
CO₂ emissionst312.91Mrank #18
CO₂ per capitat4.5rank #72
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0.11%rank #4
Electricity from hydro% generation1.9%rank #71
Electricity from solar% generation6.6%rank #44
Electricity from wind% generation29.4%rank #6
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita4,194.9rank #33
Forest area% land13.3%rank #148
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita6rank #116
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh217.4rank #32
Renewable electricity%52%rank #31
Renewable energy share%12.2%rank #121
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e408.2rank #170
Society
Asylum seekerspeople496rank #57
Extreme poverty% pop0.4%rank #5
Female labor participation%57.3%rank #62
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10042.2rank #19
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #44
Gender Inequality Index0-10.08rank #28
Gini indexindex32.4rank #24
Homicide rateper 100k1.1rank #39
Human Development Index0-10.95rank #10
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.87rank #10
Internet users% pop95.5%rank #24
Life satisfaction0-106.7rank #27
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.83rank #1
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #91
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #33
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #34
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #28
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people581,072rank #14
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people517rank #59
Youth NEET rate%14.3%rank #67
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year2rank #2
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102rank #15
Human hazard & exposure0-100.2rank #3
INFORM risk score0-102.1rank #10
Lack of coping capacity0-101.6rank #8
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.8rank #5
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.3rank #8
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.5rank #22
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year4rank #5
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.4rank #5
Vulnerability0-103rank #19
Vulnerable groups0-105rank #45
marks the leader in each row across the selected set · ranks are world ranks in the comparison spine